Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Ruff animation and Clean-Up of Shang

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is amazing work. Hope clean-up is respected much more after seeing how much work goes into it post more!

Daniel

Patrick Tuorto said...

Thanks Daniel,

Ya, The head of the clean up department used to say that Clean-Up animators are kind of like the "stunt doubles" of the animated films. I don't think anybody can really appreciate how much work goes into clean-up unless they've experienced it first hand. I should have more work posted shortly.

Patrick

Bobby Pontillas said...

Wow!! This is VERY VERY cool to see. I can't believe how rough that is! Its beautiful, but extremely rough nonetheless. I'd love to see more of these rough/cleanup comparison drawings.

I have to ask, is this indicative of the kinds of drawings you would usually get? Or an extreme case? Either way, to say you've done a fine job taking it to final model is an understatement!

Bobby Pontillas said...

Another thought, I assume you had to take multiple passes, one where you flesh the figure out, and THEN where you concentrate on final line?

Patrick Tuorto said...

Hey Bobby Thanks,

It all depends on the animator. Some will be very ruff and others extremely clean in their character animation.
For the most part though, we'd get fairly ruff drawings due to tight deadlines. Nevertheless, this is to be expected, the ruff animator's are concerned about the performance and not really about the individual drawings.
We'd sometimes do another pass over the original ruffs, but very rarely.
A good clean-up animator should be able to interprite drawings that are one step shy from looking like spaggetti as long as the performance, timing, and the mechanics are there.
Usually it meant that the animation was sub-pare and was simply re-animated by someone in clean-up. Again, this was generally not the norm.
I'll post more comparisons shortly.

Patrick

Bobby Pontillas said...

Interesting, thanks for the response Patrick. I recently heard an interview w/ Phil Noto (who maybe you even knew.) And he talked about , while there were many incredible draftsman at the studio, many other animators were very adept at animating scribbles, but couldn't really draw the characters up to par. And like you said, he would many times end up animating the scene himself I'm paraphrasing there of course. But I thought that was kind of interesting.

Patrick Tuorto said...

Hey Bobby,

Ya, I know Phil well. I worked directly with him on Lilo and Stitch. Great comic book artist to! He really knew clean-up. He was one of the guys on the recruiting team for Disney when I got accepted into the training program. I have a scene that we worked on together, I'll post it within a day or so.